Posted by SpaceSightSeer on May 11, 2009 under Collections | 
GRIN - Great Images in NASA
If its an acronym, it must be NASA! GRIN - Great Images in NASA - is one of the more clever. GRIN is maintained by NASA History Office at NASA Headquarters and contains over a thousand of the more popular NASA photos throughout the agency’s history. Images are high resolution in a variety of sizes. Some are selected for historical value, others due to popularity. If you’ve ever wondered where to get a copy of a space picture you’ve seen in the news, this is the first place to look.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on May 4, 2009 under Unmanned Missions |
Messenger Mission to Mercury
Messenger, NASA’s first spacecraft to visit Mercury has completed two flybys of the planet Venus and two of Mercury itself. Another flyby of Mercury is planned for later this fall before beginning a yearlong orbit in March 2011. JHU’s Applied Physics Lab has begun to release images from the October 2008 flyby of Mercury. According to investigators, the latest images revealed gave scientists a look at a previously unknown impact basin. Dubbed the Rembrant Basin, the feature is more than 430 miles or roughly the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on May 1, 2009 under Discussion |
Space is Big
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that is just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams - Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
This is just too good not to share. Dries Buytaert, whose blog is not typically about space, has posted a fabulous illustration that really shows just how “mind-bogglingly big” space is. It would be interesting to add Himiko to the chart too!
